Bioethics

Situated at the intersection of animal studies and literary theory, this book explores the remarkable and subtly pervasive web of animal imagery, metaphors, and concepts in the work of the Jewish-Italian writer, chemist, and Holocaust survivor Primo Levi (1919-1987).

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

From the tone of the report by the President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Re- search, one might conclude that the whole-brain-oriented definition of death is now firmly established as an enduring element of public policy.

This book covers an extensive range of issues raised by biotechnological advancements from a regulatory perspective.

This work explores and discusses the ethical dilemmas clinicians face in everyday forensic psychiatry practice.

The meaning and application of the principle of beneficence to issues in health care is rarely clear or certain.

1 Historical Introduction INTRODUCTION This chapter is mainly about the history of medicine and its ethics.

The development of bioethics has presented us with an ever increasing number of very different discussions over the last four decades.

This book applies a discussion of the nature of human life to resolving bioethical issues.

Research is defined by the Australian Research Council as "e;the creation of new knowledge and/or the use of existing knowledge in a new and creative way so as to generate new concepts, methodologies, inventions and understandings"e;.

This book is an interdisciplinary study centred on the political and legal position of animals in liberal democracies.

This book focuses on the spaces and practices of caring for horses, explored in a series of case studies set across the equine lifespan.

This volume offers a collection of writings on ethical issues regarding retarded persons.

This book explores the philosophical analysis of attitudes and values and sustainable behaviors in fields such as healthcare, social sciences, economics in the context of environmental studies.

This book highlights the latest findings and techniques related to nutrition and feed efficiency in animal agriculture.

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This book provides an overview of the US laws that affect clinical practice for healthcare professionals with no legal background.

Research on human beings saves countless lives, but has at times harmed the participants.

El presente volumen ofrece al lector reflexiones y sugerencias interpretativas sobre los aspectos capitales de la nueva Ley Orgánica 3/2021, de Regulación de la Eutanasia, realizadas por especialistas de primer orden en las diferentes vertientes de la materia.

Medical Law and Moral Rights discusses live issues arising in modern medical practice.

Emphasising the vulnerability and interdependence of humans, care ethics has emerged in recent years as a powerful alternative to dominant modes of thinking in moral philosophy.

A comprehensive reference providing an approach to problems of biomedical ethics in the clinical setting.

Despite reservoirs of moral discourse about duties in religious communities, professional caregiving traditions, and philosophical perspectives, the dominant moral language in contemporary biomedical ethics is that of `rights'.

In this book, Nik Taylor and Heather Fraser consider how we might better understand human-animal companionship in the context of domestic violence.

The scientific reproducibility crisis is a crisis of character.

This book questions how abortion laws can be regulated in a time when abortion rights are still subject to intense debate.

This book addresses the many ethical issues and extraordinary risks that nurses and others are facing during the COVID-19 pandemic, which creates physical, emotional, and economic burdens, affecting nurses' overall health and well-being.

Through engaging case studies and clear explanations of the underlying science, this book makes the social impacts and ethical consequences of recent advances in biomedicine understandable for general readers.

The book provides an in-depth discussion on the human nature concept from different perspectives and from different disciplines, analyzing its use in the doping debate and researching its normative overtones.

This book offers a unique and comprehensive outline of the ethos, the bioethics and the sexual ethics of the renowned anatomist and founder of modern geology, Niels Stensen (1638-1686).

Anti-natalism is the provocative view that it is either always or almost always all-things-considered wrong to procreate.

Most people believe that they were either benefited or at least not harmed by being brought into existence.

The question of whether there might be a duty to die was first raised by Margaret Battin in 1987 in her ground-breaking essay, "e;Age Distribution and the Just Distribution of Health Care: Is There a Duty- to-Die?

This volume reviews the broad topic of welfare in nonhuman primates under human care.

The aim of this book is to provide insight into the principles of operation of the cerebral cortex.

Understanding and improving how organizations work and are managed is the object of management research and practice, and this topic is of longstanding interest in the academia and in society at large.

Dieses Buch enthält Beiträge zum Thema Heilungswirkung der modernen Kunst.

Animals, Museum Culture and Children's Literature in Nineteenth-Century Britain: Curious Beasties explores the relationship between the zoological and palaeontological specimens brought back from around the world in the long nineteenth century-be they alive, stuffed or fossilised-and the development of children's literature at this time.

Providing a new conceptual scaffold for further research in biology and cognition, this book introduces the new field of Cognitive Biology: a systems biology approach showing that further progress in this field will depend on a deep recognition of developmental processes, as well as on the consideration of the developed organism as an agent able to modify and control its surrounding environment.

The book discusses geoscience issues in Peru from a geoethical perspective, based on the leading experience of the Peruvian section of the International Association for Promoting Geoethics, in its seven years of activity.

Ethical considerations regarding applications of technologies are becoming increasingly more important.

Politics and Practices of the Ethnographies of Biomedicine and STEM: Among White Coats collects critical examinations of the politics, positionality, and epistemological and methodological issues of doing ethnography in a number of locales across the globe and in fields including computer science, astronomy, mining, biology, and medicine.

In bioethische Kontroversen geht es zumeist um den Umgang des Menschen mit sich selbst, genauer: den Umgang mit den biologischen Grundlagen seiner – der menschlichen – Existenz.